~1.5yr Swift observations of Mrk 421 Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Kapanadze B.
  2. Dorner D.
  3. Romano P.
  4. Vercellone S.
  5. Kapanadze S.,Tabagari L.
  6. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present the results of the Swift observations of the nearby BL Lac object Mrk421 during 2013 November-2015 June. The source exhibited a strong long-term variability in the 0.3-10keV band, with a maximum-to-minimum flux ratio of 13, and underwent X-ray flares by a factor of 1.8-5.2 on timescales of a few weeks or shorter. The source showed 48 instances of intraday flux variability in this period, which sometimes was observed within the 1 ks observational run. It was characterized by fractional amplitudes of 1.5(0.3)%-38.6(0.4)% and flux doubling/halving times of 2.6-20.1hr. The X-ray flux showed a lack of correlation with the TeV flux on some occasions (strong TeV flares were not accompanied by comparable X-ray activity and vice versa), indicating that the high-energy emission in Mrk421 was generated from an emission region more complex than a single zone. The best fits of the 0.3-10keV spectra were mainly obtained using the log-parabola model, showing a strong spectral variability that generally followed a "harder-when-brighter" trend. The position of the synchrotron spectral energy distribution peak showed an extreme range from a few eV to ~10keV that happens rarely in blazars.

Keywords
  1. bl-lacertae-objects
  2. x-ray-sources
  3. ultraviolet-astronomy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2017ApJ...848..103K
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.18480103

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2018-07-16T10:24:56Z
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